Mass media affect both who receives political information, and what information is received. This influences policy formation since politicians tend to favor informed voters and well covered issues. Politicians do so for good reasons, not only are well informed voters more likely to vote than uninformed voters,1 but also more likely to vote for the candidate who furthers their interests.2 Voter...

We investigate how new elements of background knowledge can be abstracted automatically from patterns in programs. The approach is implemented in the KANDINSKY system using an algorithm that searches for common subterms over sets of functional programs. We demonstrate that KANDINSKY can invent higher-order functions such as map, fold, and sumBy from small sets of input programs. An experiment s...

This paper develops a theory of invention by drawing on complex adaptive systems theory. We see invention as a process of recombinant search over technology landscapes. This framing suggests that inventors might face a ‘complexity catastrophe’ when they attempt to combine highly interdependent technologies. Our empirical analysis of patent citation rates supports this expectation. Our results a...

We study a research site wherein technology and governance capabilities are loosely coupled. This allows us to examine the main effect of governance capability on contract structure. Furthermore, we focus on the tacitness of the invention to argue that it not only predicts contract structure but also moderates the relationships between invention or governance capability and contract structure. ...

Einstein’s 1905 paper on Brownian motion was an essential contribution to the foundation of modern atomism [20]. Atomism as understood in science today presupposes, like its predecessor rooted in the theories of nature from Greek antiquity and from early modern times, that matter is constituted by small entities. But it no longer assumes that the properties and the behavior of these entities ca...